EghtesadOnline: Government bonds were bought this week again by institutional investors as banks and credit institutions kept their distance.

EghtesadOnline: Government bonds again failed to attract buyers on Wednesday as banks, credit institutions and institutional investors stayed away.

EghtesadOnline: Investors sold equities on Wednesday and raced to buy yen and government bonds from the United States and Germany on fears that setbacks to U.S-China trade talks would undermine increasingly fragile-looking world growth.

EghtesadOnline: Government bonds tumbled around the world and the dollar rose on speculation that the economic outlook is sufficiently strong to allow the Federal Reserve to step up the pace of interest-rate hikes. Metals and crude oil fell.

EghtesadOnline: The dollar strengthened and government bonds fell as investors awaited a batch of U.S. economic data for clues on the strength of the world’s biggest economy and the trajectory of interest rates before next week’s Federal Reserve meeting.